RT Journal Article
T1 Cold-atom dynamics in crossed-laser-beam waveguides
A1 Torrontegui Muñoz, Erik
A1 Echanobe, Javier
A1 Ruschhaupt, Andreas
A1 Guéry-Odelin, David
A1 Muga, Juan Gonzalo
AB We study the dynamics of neutral cold atoms in an L-shaped crossed-beam optical waveguide formed by two perpendicular red-detuned lasers of different intensities and a blue-detuned laser at the corner. The motion in one sense is optimized, and the motion in the other sense may be suppressed even if it is energetically allowed. Quantum and classical simulations are performed and give similar results. Complemented with a vibrational cooling process we find a range of parameters for which this setting works as a one-way device or "atom diode."
PB American Physical Society
SN 1050-2947
YR 2010
FD 2010-10
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/32326
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/32326
LA eng
NO We acknowledge the kind hospitality of the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, funding by the Basque Country University (Project No. GIU07/40), Basque Government (Project No. IT 472-10), Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Project No. FIS2009-12773-C02-01), and Agence Nationale de la Recherche (Project No. ANR-09-BLAN-0134-01). E.T. acknowledges support from the Basque Government (Grant No. BFI08.151).
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